Professor Frank Bowden is the acting director of medical services for ACT Health, the current principal medical advisor for the ACT Government, foundation professor of medicine at the Australian National University and the current senior specialist of infectious disease at the Canberra Hospital.

On 666 Afternoons, Professor Bowden shared stories about his life and work with Alex Sloan on Canberra Close Up.

Talking about Canberra being a small place, Professor Bowden described Canberra's size as both a blessing and a burden.

"It doesn't matter where you go, you're going to bump into one of your patients or see somebody in the supermarket that may or may not want to acknowledge you, depending on which specialty you work in," he said.

Professor Bowden joked that cardiologists would be embraced by their patients saying: "Thank you doctor, you've saved my life."

But other sides of the profession were seen in a different light.

"Like me, if part of your career has been in sexual health, people tend to ignore you in supermarkets," Professor Bowden said.

From medical school to the subject of hygene, the conversation had 666 listeners calling in asking for 'Part 2'.